Lahore remembers its erstwhile residents who migrated to India by installing plaques

BATHINDA: Pakistan based social organisation Lahore Sangat has taken an initiative to revive the old bonds of prominent citizens of Pakistan Punjab’ capital city of Lahore, who migrated to India after partition.
The organisation has restarted the process to put plaques of persons at the places associated with them, either their places of birth, old residences or the places where they were executed.

The project named as ‘Lahore remember and honour its citizen who migrated to India’ though was started in March but was put on hold due to Covid restrictions when only 10 plaques were installed and now has been restarted with the cooperation of Punjab government and so far 121 famous erstwhile residents of Lahore have been identified.

The plaques have been written in English and Urdu mentioning smaller details like the time period of when they lived in Lahore and more plaques will be installed as the list evolves, says Sangat member Qasim Jafri from Lahore.
Punjabi poet and novelist Amrita Pritam, philanthropist Dyal Singh Majithia, freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai, singer Mohammad Rafi and many more have been recognised by the plaques that are being put.
The plaque of Lala Lajpat Rai has been installed at the gate of Gol Bagh, plaque of Amrita Pritam installed at Dhani Ram Street, Anarkali, plaque of Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak installed at Dehli Muslim hotel, Anarkali. Plaque of the name of Bhai Ram Singh has been put on the boundary wall of Lahore museum and National college of arts.

Meanwhile, deputy commissioner/land acquisition collector of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has issued acquisition notification under section 4 for acquiring the house in Peshawar city for protection of ancient house and preserve it as a museum in phased manner.
It has been mentioned in the notification that the land/house is likely to be taken by the government on public expenses for public purpose for acquisition of land/house for protection of ancient house of Dalip Kumar Mohalla Khudadad Qissa Khwani district Peshawar.